pad thai

/[ˈpað̞ ˈt̪aj]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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pad thai is aSpanishnoun. It means: Plato de origen tailandés salteado en wok, y a base de fideos de arroz con huevo, salsa de pescado, pasta de tamarindo, y cualquier combinación de brotes de soja, camarones, pollo decorado con caca... Pronounced [ˈpað̞ ˈt̪aj].

Key facts for pad thai
PropertyValue
Headwordpad thai
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈpað̞ ˈt̪aj]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pad thai is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pad thai is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpað̞ ˈt̪aj]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plato de origen tailandés salteado en wok, y a base de fideos de arroz con huevo, salsa de pescado, pasta de tamarindo, y cualquier combinación de brotes de soja, camarones, pollo decorado con caca...".

No misspelling variants are generated for pad thai in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is pad thai, spelled P-A-D- -T-H-A-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plato de origen tailandés salteado en wok, y a base de fideos de arroz con huevo, salsa de pescado, pasta de tamarindo, y cualquier combinación de brotes de soja, camarones, pollo decorado con cacahuates picados igual que tostados y cilantro. Se sirve habitualmente con una rodaja de limón y el jugo de esta fruta se añade al plato como condimento.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pad thai"?
"pad thai" is spelled P-A-D- -T-H-A-I. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpað̞ ˈt̪aj].
What does "pad thai" mean?
As a noun, "pad thai" means: Plato de origen tailandés salteado en wok, y a base de fideos de arroz con huevo, salsa de pescado, pasta de tamarindo, y cualquier combinación de brotes de soja, camarones, pollo decorado con caca...
How do you pronounce "pad thai"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pad thai" is [ˈpað̞ ˈt̪aj]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pad thai" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.